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On June 10, 2022, Petzold announced that an expanded second edition would be published later that year. The second edition was released on July 28, 2022, along with an interactive companion website developed by Petzold. [2] [3] The idea of writing the book came to him in 1987 while writing a column called "PC Tutor" for PC Magazine. [4]
[12] American Scientist has included this work among "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science", referring to the twentieth century. [13] Covers of the third edition of Volume 1 quote Bill Gates as saying, "If you think you're a really good programmer… read (Knuth's) Art of Computer Programming …
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools [1] is a computer science textbook by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman about compiler construction for programming languages. First published in 1986, it is widely regarded as the classic definitive compiler technology text. [2]
The magazine said that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics. [8] A review of SICP as an undergraduate textbook by Philip Wadler noted the weaknesses of the Scheme language as an introductory language for a computer science course. [9]
The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined.
Introduction to Algorithms is a book on computer programming by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.The book is described by its publisher as "the leading algorithms text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals". [1]
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments as a substantive but light-hearted treatment of the analysis of algorithms.
Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science was a series of books on computer science published by Prentice Hall. [1] The series' founding editor was Tony Hoare. Richard Bird subsequently took over editing the series. [2] Many of the books in the series have been in the area of formal methods in particular.